21 July 2019: Queen Elisabeth National Park
- vagranttwitcher
- Jul 21, 2019
- 1 min read
Uganda hosts over 10% of the world’s birds and 50% of Africa’s birds and is home to 1072 different species. We were slowly making headway into this list and by the end of day two had ticked over a hundred species.
On the way to Queen Elisabeth we found specials such as Weyns’s Weaver, Baglafecht Weaver, White-headed Saw-wing, Black-billed Wood Dove, Double-toothed Barbet and Brown-throated Wattle-eye. A small quarry near our guesthouse produced Red-headed Lovebird, Elliot’s Woodpecker and Golden-backed Weaver.
An early start the next morning found us birding the savanna area of Queen Elisabeth. This section of the park mostly consists of savanna grassland interspersed with bush and volcanic craters filled with water. Most of the birds are similar to those found in South Africa, but we managed to find numerous Crunch’s Spurfowls, recently split from the Red-necked Spurfowl by non-other than Rob Little, sitting in the seat behind me – talk about getting information straight from the horse’s mouth!
By the end of the day we had ticked an impressive list of specials, including Grey-capped Warbler, Swamp Flycatcher, Black-lored Babbler, Spot-flanked Barbet, White-headed Barbet, Trilling Cisticola and Winding Cisticola.
That evening Rob and myself enjoyed the excellent company of Captain Morgan, while Maans confirmed his sincere commitment to Mr Klipdrif (with ice). After the birding autopsy of the day we all went to sleep as happy campers, not too worried about mosquitos and other creepy crawlies disturbing our beauty sleep.
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